Search Results: Titles starting with W from Zetetic Books

Liverpool: Big Flame, 1980. 36pp, original paper covers. Slightly creased, with one or two small patches of soiling, but generally clean. With a leaflet introducing Big Flame's principles. The second edition, reprinted one month after the first. Reprint. Paper Covers. Good. 4to. Pamphlet.

London: Edward Moxon, 1844. iv, 170pp, [2]. Full calf, raised bands, spine in five panels, leather title label to second panel, remaining panels with curved lines joined by volute corner pieces, covers with single fillet border, primrose endpapers. Spine dulled, slightly rubbed, internally the occasional hint of foxing, but generally quite bright and clean. "Leigh, Chandos, first Baron Leigh (1791-1850), poet and literary patron ... Poetry was his chief vanity; he published over two dozen volumes, mostly in small or private editions" (Oxford DNB). First Edition. Full Calf. Good. 12mo.

London: Tilt and Bogue; Simpkin and Co; Orr and Co. Two volumes complete - North Wales, 332pp, [4]; South Wales [14], 284pp, [4]. Uniform half calf and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spines in six panels, morocco title label to second panel, remaining panels with gilt double fillet border, shell corner pieces joined by elongated volutes and pointille, 'Stormont' pattern marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Very minor wear to extremities. Internally the additional engraved titles are browned, the tissue-guarded plates are generally lightly browned to edges, with light foxing, occasionally to subject. Both maps are hand-coloured in outline and are quite bright and clean, the map of South Wales has a tear along one fold, but with no loss. Text is generally quite bright and clean. Previous owners (Edward Lee) armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Quite an attractive pair with all one hundred plates and two maps called for. Roscoe, Thomas (1791-1871), writer and translator,… Read More

Exeter: Flindell [Printer] Single sided printed broadside, approximately 175mm x 220mm in size, n.d. c.1820? Quite bright and clean. The full title is 'Wanted Immediately, Many Thousands, to Pay Off Old Scores and New Ones. For Which Purpose an Auction Will be Held of All That Inn Famous Concern, Situate in Bampfylde-Lane, at the Sign of the Great Cann, in the Parish of Spreyton, for Sale of the Undermentioned Live and Dead Stock'. The printer is probably Thomas Flindell fl. 1812-1824 (see BBTI). Relating mainly to local politicians ('Bampfylde-Lane' presumably relates to Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, an Exeter MP between 1796 and 1812), there is also a mention of 'a large lot of White Hats on dirty poles', which presumably relates to Henry Hunt who was famous for wearing a white hat. The individual disguised as, 'One Old Poltimore [a village in Devon] Cock, without spurs, having Chicken by various Hens', remains unknown to this cataloguer. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. 8vo. Broadside.

London: The Peace Pledge Union 12pp, original card covers, n.d. but 1938. Covers browned to edges, small chip to foot of spine, staples rusted, internally fairly bright and clean. Originally printed in 'The Contemporary Review'. First Separate. Card Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

No Place: The Purple Realm, 1967. Single sided printed blacklight poster, approximately 610mm x 930mm in size. Curled from rolling, some very light foxing to edges, otherwise quite bright and clean. These blacklight posters are supposed to glow and vibrate under ultraviolet light, allegedly mimicking the visual distortions sometimes experienced under the influence of LSD. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Illus. by Kasower, Steven F.. Double Elephant. Poster.

London: The War Resisters' International [8]p, original paper covers, n.d. c.1936. Staples rusted, covers with a hint of foxing, very minor browning, otherwise fairly bright and clean. LSE only on COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Peace News, 1947. 8pp, original paper covers. A few spots of foxing, staples rusted, otherwise fairly bright and clean. First published in 'The New Statesman'. BL, NLW and St Andrews in COPAC. First Thus. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

No Place: No Publisher Small archive, made up mainly of letters and printed ephemera relating to the British philanthropist Frank Harcourt-Munning, the lead administrator of the charity 'War on Want'. 'War on Want' grew out of the 'Association for World Peace', which had been created in 1950 by the publisher Victor Gollancz in support of overseas development. The AWP created a committee, chaired by the Labour MP and future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, which published a report entitled 'War on Want - A Plan for World Development', which advocated global development as a bulwark against communism and war. When Frank Harcourt-Munning (a wealthy Christian socialist) took over as administrator and began to invest significant amounts of resources 'War on Want' emerged as an NGO, and then became a charity in 1959. The archive includes ten typed signed letters / notes from Harold Wilson (as Prime Minister) on 10 Downing Street letterheaded paper to Harcourt-Munning… Read More

London: W. T. Sherwin [1], 2-15pp, [1], disbound. Lightly browned, lightly foxed and stained. Sherwin's reprint of Southey's disavowed poem. Southey, by the time this early poem was published, was Poet Laureate, and the anti-royal tone struck many as seditious. Hazlitt, in Leigh Hunt's 'The Examiner', excoriated Southey, contrasting his early radicalism with his current servility (see Hoadley, 'The Controversy Over Southey's Wat Tyler', in 'Studies in Philology', Vol. 38, No. 1, 1941. This Sherwin reprint is one of many printed by radicals, including Hone, after Sherwood, Neely, and Jones had, despite triumphing against Southey's attempt to suppress the poem, decided to withdraw their edition from sale. The final page is a notice that the 'Republican' which "would be more generally read if its title was changed; and I know that there are many, who agree with the principle, but who actually are afraid of a paper, bearing such a name, being found… Read More

Leicester: No Publisher Single sided printed ticket, approximately 170mm x 125mm in size, no date (after 1850). Couple of spots to reverse where once mounted, otherwise quite bright and clean. Ticket for admittance to view Landseer's 'A Dialogue at Waterloo', made out to a Mr E. Loseby, and to be viewed at T.[homas] Chapman Browne's Bible and Crown premises in the Market Place, Leicester. Landseer's painting was first exhibited in 1850, is three metres wide, and is now in the Tate. For Browne see the BBTI. First Edition. Unbound. Very Good. 32mo (Oblong). Ticket.

Aberdare: Black Lion Hotel 8pp, n.d. circa 1875? Original paper wrappers. Ex-library with accession number to head of front cover in pencil. Covers detached and split, some chipping to spine, small ink stain to fore-edge of front cover, previous owners name to head of page one. Internally quite bright. Tells the story (from the Memoirs of Charles Mayne Young) of the commercial traveller, who came upon the battle of Waterloo, decided to stay and watch (!) and ended up being used as a messenger by Wellington, to enact an order which was regarded by Wellington as pivotal. Scarce, no copies located on COPAC or elsewhere . First Edition. Paper Covers. Fair. 16mo. Pamphlet.

London: Communist Youth Movement, 1936. [3], 2-23pp, [3], original paper covers. Staple rusted, slightly rubbed to extremities, lightly browned, small light stain to last couple of pages. Based on the report of John Gollan to the Eighth National Conference of the Communist Youth Movement. Cope 3048. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Peace News, 1947. 12pp, original paper covers, staples rusted, slightly creased, otherwise fairly bright and clean. BL and Bristol in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Oxford: Peace Advertising Campaign Single sided printed poster, approximately 290mm x 420mm in size, n.d. c.1985. Quite bright and clean. Showing a cigarette smoking and machine gun toting Ronald Reagan posing with a military general against a post-nuclear world in the background. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Elephant Folio. Poster.

No Place: No Publisher Single sided printed broadside, approximately 400mm x 385mm in size, no publisher or place but see below, n.d. but probably early 1918. Browned, chipped to edges with some loss, a few small tears, slightly creased from having been folded in four, with many closed tears to folds to reverse. The text is written from a nationalist perspective, asking why British troops should fight for other countries' war aims, "If the Frenchies really must have Alsace-Lorraine, very well, let them fight for it and good luck to them! ... Must our British lads really further risk their skins for such far-fetched aims? Why not let all these other people attend to their own fighting ... why ask our British lads to pluck these hot chestnuts from the fire for them?". A rare and elaborate example of First World War German aerial propaganda which was dropped over British troops on the Western Front. Not found in JISC, but there is a copy in the Imperial War Museum (from where the… Read More

London: No More War Movement 20pp, original paper covers, n.d. circa 1932? Staples rusted, with one or two spots of discolouring, but generally fairly bright and clean. Four locations in COPAC (Bishopsgate, Ox, NLS and LSE) . First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Columbia, Maryland: The Feminist Press Single sided printed poster, approximately 445mm x 570mm in size, n.d. c.1971. Creased from old folds, otherwise quite bright and clean. Both 'The Dragon and the Doctor' and 'Challenge to Become a Doctor' (described as 'new books') were published in 1971. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Illus. by Ashby, Gail. Elephant Folio. Poster.

No Place: No Publisher, 1967. Single sided printed poster, approximately 585mm x 885mm in size. Slightly curled from being rolled, otherwise bright and clean. Image of Spiro T. Agnew in Native American dress over printed on a street map of San Francisco. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Illus. by Andrini, Bob. Double Elephant. Poster.

Manchester: John Heywood, 1894. [8], 203pp, [1]. Original decorative cloth, title in gilt to spine and front cover. Spine very slightly dulled, slightly rubbed to extremities. Very light spotting to edges, light spotting to endpapers, previous owners name to endpaper, text quite bright and clean . First Edition. Original Cloth. Good+. 12mo.